Businesses and law firms face critical issues with respect to cybersecurity, privacy, and artificial intelligence. This continuing legal education program will address the most acute cybersecurity risks faced by businesses and law firms, and the practical strategies for them to implement to comply with existing privacy laws and emerging AI regulations. This CLE also will address the ethical responsibilities of lawyers with respect to cybersecurity and AI.
Devastating Cybersecurity Threats and the Vital Advanced Safeguards Needed To Mitigate Risk. Businesses in all industries and of all sizes are constantly being targeted by ultra-sophisticated criminals, and law firms are coveted targets for cyber hackers. The two most potentially devastating cybersecurity threats are email compromise leading to electronic funds transfer fraud, and device or network intrusion leading to data exfiltration and financial extortion. Because safeguards that were considered reasonable six months or a year ago are now insufficient to prevent these attacks, businesses and law firms need to move quickly to adopt a series of vital new advanced mechanisms to mitigate these risks. Indeed, as lawyers, we have an ethical duty to do so. This presentation will address these two potentially devastating cybersecurity threats, the vital new advanced mechanisms needed to mitigate these risks, the protocols businesses and law firms need to adopt to respond in the event of a breach, and our ethical responsibilities as lawyers with respect to cybersecurity preparedness and breach response.
Privacy Laws Impose New Compliance Requirements and Create New Rights for Individuals. Waves of privacy laws have spread across the country and the world, including New Hampshire’s new privacy law effective January 1, 2025. Unlike cybersecurity laws that generally apply to narrower categories of sensitive identity-related information, privacy laws govern a far more expansive swath of any personal information about individuals. Businesses and law firms must act now to come into compliance with these laws, including by assessing their collection and use of personal information, and by providing notice to and obtaining consent from individuals before collecting and using their personal information. Also, privacy laws afford individuals new rights to exercise certain control over their personal information, including the right to limit a business’s or law firm’s use of it, obtain a copy of their personal information, and have the business or firm deleted their personal information. This presentation will address the strategies for businesses and law firms to implement in order to ensure they are in compliance with these new privacy laws.
Artificial Intelligence Should Be Adopted Through Legally and Operationally Sound Strategies. Just like computers, email and the Internet, businesses and law firms can, will and must (to remain competitive) incorporate AI into operations. Indeed, as lawyers, we have an ethical responsibility to evaluate the efficacy of AI for our practices, implement it where appropriate, and responsibly manage our use of it. While AI is often analogized to the Wild West, a business’s or law firm’s adoption of it should be neither unplanned nor unstructured. An existing AI law in the European Union, emerging state AI laws in the United States, existing privacy and cybersecurity laws, and emerging ethical opinions are all creating a body of principles and rules for the use of AI. Likewise, businesses and law firms are starting to create a set of best-practices to implement AI. This presentation will address legally and operationally sound strategies for businesses and law firms to investigate, experiment with, integrate, and capitalize on the power of AI, and to ensure that lawyers to do in compliance with our ethical duties.
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Materials:
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